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0 Have your say £20bn boost for the NHS is buying Boris Johnson’s loyalty – and you’re paying, writes Paris Gourtsoyannis If you were to define Donald Trump’s politics, the aggressive promotion of falsehoods and empty promises would feature prominently in the dictionary entry.Hence the border wall paid for by Mexico that’s actually a patchy fence paid for by US taxpayers, the choreographed chants of “lock her up” to threaten and smear Hillary Clinton without basis, or the declaration of an end to the nuclear threat from North Korea based on a single handshake… I could go on.Similar tactics were deployed during the EU referendum campaign. One of them now appears to be government policy.Economists, whose own work was of questionable quality during the Brexit campaign, have been helpfully clear in response to Theresa May’s claim that a “Brexit dividend” will help pay for £20 billion in extra spending on … [Read more...] about Paris Gourtsoyannis: Brexit dividend could cost May dear

News / UK and world by Press Association June 18, 2018, 6:54 pm Updated: June 18, 2018, 7:18 pm FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter The Government has suffered a heavy defeat in the Lords over giving MPs a “meaningful vote” on the final Brexit deal. Voting was 354 to 235, majority 119, for an amendment to the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill tabled by Tory former minister Viscount Hailsham. It was worded along the lines of the agreement Tory former attorney general Dominic Grieve thought he had reached with the Government last week. The vote kicks the controversial issue back to the Commons in a further round of parliamentary “ping pong”, with MPs expected to debate it on Wednesday. Lord Hailsham said the Government had failed to deliver its promise to provide a “meaningful vote” on the Brexit deal and it was up to peers to insist on it to give MPs another chance to debate the issue. But … [Read more...] about Government suffers new defeat in Lords over key Brexit legislation

The question I’m asked most often — and have been since the Brexit referendum result in 2016: Do you think there’ll be a united Ireland in your lifetime? The question I’m asked most often — and have been since the Brexit referendum result in 2016: Do you think there’ll be a united Ireland in your lifetime?My lifetime will probably end in the next 20 years, taking me up to 2038 (although given my fondness for Custard Creams and an Ulster Fry I could keel over anytime); but my answer to the question is always No. Of course, I’m not going to speculate on what happens after I’m pushing up the daisies but, as it stands — even with the shift in demographs and the fallout from Brexit — I don’t believe a majority in Northern Ireland will vote to leave the United Kingdom anytime soon.Until the Brexit result I’m pretty sure most nationalists/republicans didn’t believe there’d be a united Ireland anytime soon, … [Read more...] about Brexit upended things but I still don’t expect Irish unity

News / UK and world by Press Association June 19, 2018, 6:56 am FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter The Government faces another battle to appease Brexit rebels in the Commons after Lords again backed giving MPs a “meaningful vote” on the final Brexit deal. The to-and-fro over Parliament’s role as the UK leaves the EU will return to the Commons after peers inflicted another heavy defeat on the Government on Monday. They backed an amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, tabled by Viscount Hailsham, which would require the Government to allow MPs to vote on how it would proceed in the absence of a Brexit deal by January 21 next year. MPs will now vote on whether to adopt the motion, which was brought in after pro-EU rebels led by former attorney general Dominic Grieve accused the Government of reneging on measures they believed had been agreed to stave off a rebellion last week. Prime Minister Theresa May had earlier … [Read more...] about May faces another Brexit showdown with Tory rebels after heavy Lords defeat

Northern Ireland By Stephen Walker BBC News NI Political Correspondent 18 June 2018 Share this with Facebook Share this with Twitter Share this with Messenger Share this with Messenger Share this with Email Share Share this with These are external links and will open in a new window Email Share this with Email Facebook Share this with Facebook Messenger Share this with Messenger Messenger Share this with Messenger Twitter Share this with Twitter Pinterest Share this with Pinterest WhatsApp Share this with WhatsApp LinkedIn Share this with LinkedIn Copy this link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-44526605 Read more about sharing. These are external links and will open in a new window Close share panel Related TopicsBrexit A Labour Peer has called for greater clarity when it comes to Brexit, Northern Ireland and the border.Baroness Armstrong … [Read more...] about Peer calls for post-Brexit border clarity